Re: Can't Delete Files

2002-04-06 Thread Bill Crawford
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Nitebirdz wrote: > Since the original poster seemed to be used to the 'rm -rdf directory' > command and it didn't work in this case, I thought it would be appropriate > to answer with the answer as to why it didn't work. It's in the man page: > >-d, --directory >

Re: Can't Delete Files

2002-04-06 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 07:16:40PM +0100, IST wrote: > Hi > > Did you try "rm -rf directoryname"? > > Certain it will work > > Since the original poster seemed to be used to the 'rm -rdf directory' command and it didn't work in this case, I thought it would be appropriate to answer with the

Re: Can't Delete Files

2002-04-04 Thread IST
Hi Did you try "rm -rf directoryname"? Certain it will work On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 18:54, Chris Young wrote: > I am new to Red Hat Linux. > > I just had a web server set up by my ISP and I can't delete directories > off the server. > > Using rm -rdf Directoryname in SSH I get an error mes

Can't Delete Files

2002-04-04 Thread Chris Young
Title: Message I am new to Red Hat Linux.   I just had a web server set up by my ISP and I can't delete directories off the server.   Using rm -rdf Directoryname in SSH I get an error message stating that "cannot unlink `Merchant2': Is a directory"   Any idea what is going on here.   I am